Allison Kidd

Allison is an archaeologist and art historian specializing in Roman architecture and urbanism. Her research explores how economics, aesthetics, and expressions of identity drove craft and building practices, especially in Late Antiquity. She has led research projects in Italy, Greece, and Turkey and is currently undertaking field research on architectural assemblages from the Marzamemi 2 wreck and the NYU and Oxford-led Excavations at Aphrodisias. She has recently edited a special issue for Studies in Late Antiquity, entitled Approaching Adaptation and Innovation in the Late Antique Urban Environment (forthcoming 2024) and is publishing several contributions for The Place of Palms: An Urban Park at Aphrodisias (also forthcoming 2024). For her current project, Ordering Architecture in Late Antiquity, she is also building an open-source online photo archive and database with the University of Edinburgh focusing on the architecture and its ornamentation produced in cities of the Mediterranean region from the 3rd through the 7th centuries A.D.